UiPath Announces the Availability of UiPath 2018 Platform – Unlocking the Full Potential of Digital Transformation through Enterprise Automation

8 February 2018

UiPath Announces the Availability of UiPath 2018 Platform – Unlocking the Full Potential of Digital Transformation through Enterprise Automation

UiPath announced today the general availability of UiPath 2018, code-named “Firefly.” UiPath 2018 is a comprehensive upgrade to one of the world’s most widely adopted platforms for Enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA). UiPath ended 2017 with 700 enterprise customers – a 611 percent increase over 2016 – and a worldwide community of developers exceeding 120,000.

UiPath continues to deliver on its mission to democratize its RPA offering through an online community and UiPath Academy, a comprehensive, self-led training and certification program used by more than 55,000 people since its inception in April 2017. The company is leading the market, with annual recurring revenue increasing 790 percent over 2016.

UiPath 2018 builds on the strengths of UiPath 2017, including support for rapid implementation and delivery of compelling customer return on investment. With UiPath 2018, customers gain higher operational resiliency, increased flexibility and more robust security while also benefiting from embedded machine learning capabilities and new AI services.

UiPath 2018 Delivers Enterprise RPA Industry Firsts

UiPath 2018 has been tested and proven to operate over 10,000 robots in a standard, recommended architecture. It delivers unrivaled robotic capacity, flexible scaling and confidence and control throughout operations spanning on-premises to public clouds.

UiPath 2018 now offers pre-built, drag/drop and tight inbound/outbound integrations with ecosystem partners such as Oracle. This enables customers to turn their RPA, BPM and ERP systems into seamless automation footprints.

UiPath 2018 has fully enabled Python development and now opens the inclusion of AI open source libraries to employ machine learning models on digital processes. It will be enhanced continuously through the year.

UiPath 2018 Highlights

Protecting sensitive data and robot activity.UiPath 2018 delivers enhanced asset and archive data security with support for Elasticsearch Security. It also provides an expanded integration with CyberArk for more robust compliance and non-repudiation assurance.

Ensuring secure Enterprise RPA operations.UiPath 2018 source code is fully Veracode-verified and validated against potential penetration, intrusion or vulnerabilities throughout the UiPath platform and in third-party code. UiPath will unveil its UiPath RPA Security Framework methodology for suggesting best practices in securing IT robotic operations.

Increasing efficiency in automations.UiPath 2018 comes with an out-of-the-box studio workflow template, based on best practices for process configuration, exception-handling, event logging and more. Users can apply this template with their own customizations to a particular process.

Accelerating innovation through RPA’s largest open ecosystem.UiPath continues to expand the ecosystem of companies integrating into the UiPath platform through its open APIs. New integrations include Oracle Process Cloud Services, Newgensoft, Enate and Microsoft Office 365 platforms.

UiPath 2018 builds on our amazing momentum in 2017 and our phenomenal customer growth. With this release, we have demonstrated tremendous scale operating over 10,000 robots successfully in a single environment. We continue to emphasize security, control and governance throughout, and have introduced new frameworks and solutions to speed up automation. We are working to help our customers become more sophisticated through the incorporation of industry-specific machine learning models and AI algorithms into their digital business operations.

The NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) has recently deployed UiPath into production. The UiPath platform has met NASA security requirements, worked well during implementation, and both technical and administrative support has been outstanding. This is the first step in offering RPA services to NASA centers, we plan to increase them over the next months.

Sarah Burnett, vice president of research at Everest Group added:

Users of Enterprise RPA consider ease of software and robot maintenance, security and scalability to be its most important features. Integrated cognitive and machine learning for processing unstructured data is also important, as is the availability of robot operational analytics. RPA is a journey and the richness of the software speeds up that journey. UiPath 2018 is another significant step forward towards meeting these requirements for Enterprise RPA.